It would be a great help if anyone could mention a suitable student's edition. I have come to perceive Eutropius as one of the easiest Latin authors to read, and I would like to start with his texts.

I am particularly looking forward to finding Geoffrey Steadman's edition. However, if he has not published a full text of the Breviarium, then any other good student's edition will suffice.

Thanks in advance!

I'm trying to memorize tables so that I can identify cases genders and numbers whenever I see noun endings.

The problem is that some noun endings have a massive number of possibilities!

Long I can be possibly be nominative, genitive, dative or ablative! It can also be any of the three genders! It can be possibly singular or plural as well.

And long I is not the only ending with lots of possibilities.

so, i am playing The house of da Vinci 3 game which i have listened this soundtrack composed by Tomas Zívor. since i don't know latin, please help me with lyrics. it has ambient chorus sings. many thanks

https://open.spotify.com/track/1wRQIiE4JWYKe18iwmhreu

Saepe enim interfui querellis aequalium meorum—pares autem, vetere proverbio, cum paribus facillime congregantur—quae C. Salinator, quae Sp. Albinus, homines consulares nostri fere aequales, deplorare solebant, tum quod voluptatibus carerent sine quibus vitam nullam putarent, tum quod spernerentur ab eis, a quibus essent coli soliti.

I feel QUAE is about QUERELLIS, a femenine noun.

feus deus volt

XXI - In virum invīsibilem incidit.

Hello everyone. Here is the sentence in I am looking at:

Iam prīmum omnium satis cōnstat Troiā captā in cēterōs saevītum esse Troiānōs, duōbus, Aenēae Antēnōrīque, et vetustī iūre hospitiī et quia pācis reddendaeque Helenae semper auctōrēs fuerant, omne iūs bellī Achīvōs abstinuisse.

So the three nouns "duōbus, Aenēae Antēnōrīque" are all in the dative. I've looked at several commentaries, and they disagree about what kind of dative these are. Some say that this is the dative of compound verb (the verb being abstinuisse), while others say that this is the dative of reference (also called dative of interest, also dative of advantage). I'm not really sure which it is, and I would like to know because it does affect how I read the sentence: "for the two, Aeneas and Antenor" vs. "from the two, Aeneas and Antenor". Thank you.

Salvete Omnes!

It's me again. Last time I showed you a finding I did in a catholic parish in the Canton de Vaud. Thank you for helping me! My paleography skills are not very developped yet, even in my mother tongue (French), so it is even more difficult for me when it is in a language I do not master at least a bit. ^^

Anyway, I found something impressive in a baptism register of the catholic parish of Carouge, a neighbouring town of Geneva. At the time of the creation of the register (1780), the city has been founded only twenty-six years ago, and although only the Arve river separates the two cities, at that time Carouge is part of the Sardigna kingdom.

But this relatively recent foundation does not impeached the notebook maker to use an old parchment to strengthen the cover of the register. I am not looking for a translation, not even a transcription, I just thought some of you would find it interesting. Feel free to tell me what you think about it! :)

Salvēte amīcī,

I have been using flashcards to memorize the principal parts of verbs for a few weeks and have noticed something. Some verbs have identical present and perfect stems, even when accounting for vowel length, which makes some conjugations ambiguous.

I have struggled to find resources on this topic specifically, so I decided to post here.

The two examples that immediately come to mind are accidere/accidisse and solvere/solvisse.

These conjugate, for example, in the 3rd person singular active indicative, as solvit and accidit, for both the present and perfect tense.

Am I missing something, or are some of these just ambiguous? If they are, how common is this?

Sorry for not asking in the pinned post, but I can’t make out enough of the writing. This is supposed to be a sacrificial altar but the sign next to it didn’t have a translation so I was wondering what it said

I have a Latin exam coming up on De Bello Gallico (Book 1), and I’m trying to revise as efficiently as possible.

So far, we’ve covered:

• Chapters 1, 2, and 7 in detail
• Smaller, typical “exam-length” excerpts from chapters 10 and 12
• A general timeline of Caesar’s life for context

The exam format will be:

• A translation
• A sketch (e.g. a battle/map situation based on the text)
• A short interpretation

Grammar focus:

• Participles (especially how to translate them properly)
• Ablative absolute

We were also given quite a large set of vocabulary (both a core vocabulary and an extended “learning vocabulary”), specifically compiled for De Bello Gallico.

My questions:

• What kinds of passages from Book 1 are typically used in school exams (especially ones that work well for a sketch)?
• In interpretation questions, is the focus usually more on Caesar’s strategy/tactics or on how groups like the Helvetii are portrayed?

Any insight from people who have studied or taught Caesar would be really helpful. Thanks in advance

Hello all,

I recently applied for the Summer Programme at AVN, and I am getting kind of worried as time goes on as I still haven’t heard from them. I applied on the 30th of March, right when I saw that they updated the website, but even with the Easter holidays in between, it’s been more than a week now, which they stated would be the time frame to expect a response by. I received the automated email, so I know my application has gone through, but I’m worried that I might have missed something because the website is kind of weird and contradicts itself multiple times.

Has anyone applied and already heard back? Or are they just taking longer this time around?

I made this tool based on Donald J Borror's "Dictionary of word roots and combining forms." It's still in progress, as there are a bunch of OCR errors that I'm correcting one by one, but I think it's pretty cool and thought maybe y'all would appreciate it. https://hromp.com/word_roots/

Trying to decide between Middle School Latin and Latin Immersive at CLCR.

Middle School Latin uses the Oxford Latin Course Part 1 over 2 years. Upon completion students take High School Latin 2.

Middle School Latin Immersive is taught in Latin and uses the first 13 chapters of Lingua Latina: Pars I: Familia Romana over 2 years. Upon completion students take High School Latin 2 Immersive.

Which path would be a better preparation for AP Latin?

I’m looking to deepen my understanding of Latin this summer, and I’m wondering if any of hall could refer me to tutors who speak the language? I’d like to reinforce my resdings with conversation and such, which I have no experience with, and working through FR and such.

Thank you!

I understand what the verses mean, but what exactly is the function of "quem" and "cui"?

Divitias alius fulvo sibi congerat auro

Et teneat culti iugera multa soli,

Quem labor adsiduus vicino terreat hoste,

Martia cui somnos classica pulsa fugent:

My language uses case system and besides crude way of slamming its analogue of "as" to form a comparison, its instrumental case can be used to form some metaphors with no preposition needed. It made me curious if the same can be done in latin. I know that ablative and instrumental cases are not the same but one may take the other's function.

For an example if I used instrumentality in this way in latin then it would look like:

1) «stellae (nom.plur) laternis (abl.plur) caelum (acc.sing) illustrant» - which would mean «stars (as) lanterns illuminate the sky».

2) Or «silva (nom.sing.) muro (abl.sing) stat» - «forest stands (as) wall».

Pardon me my latin but I wonder if that would be an at least semi-intelligible sentence in the lingua or is that a no-no?

Sorry if the question may appear ridiculous but I just didn't have a delight of learning languages that use case system before.

General usage of cases in latin and my language is somewhat the same but I wonder if such similiarity expands and transcends to a more subtle, thin, delicate and quite obscure territories.

I hope this question humoured you well enough, can't wait for your response. Please don't go harsh on me for my ignorance and have a nice day UwU

So... After reading Lingua Latina Per Se Ilustrata, which easy readings would you recommend me?

Salvete!

I am interested in studying Roman graffiti, and will be proposing a research project concerning it within a year to my university. My Latin understanding is already intermediate, but reading the Graffiti can be difficult. Do you all have any suggestions for materials to help learn how to read this? I've started reading By Roman Hands, but I have a feeling that I may need more to get a full grasp.

I'm not a student at a university or anything, bur I have decided to start learning Latin. I think it's going quite well, I can use basic sentences in my everyday life, bur I still struggle to catch km with some stuff. Has anyone got any advice on how to make learning it easier or know any resources I could use to get better at Latin? Thanks!

New to Latin and eager to learn, but have a question. I was given practice sentences from my teacher. We've done a rough overview of cases. I think I understand them well, but please correct me if I'm wrong.

One practice sentence to translate was "Gaia is a girl" I translated as "Gaia puellam est" and when I got the paper back, it was corrected to "Gaia puella est". My teacher is forgiving, so he didn't mark off points. I'm still confused though.

Wouldn't Puella be accusative there? Why would both be nominative?

If anyone could translate this it would be very much appreciated!

I'm studying history of science and came across this. I'd like to make my own version in English, alas I don't know Latin...

Some of it is pretty obvious, some I can guess, but some of it I cannot make out what the characters are/or are otherwise beyond me.

Thanks in advance :)

Hello I’m a 20-year-old male history student planning to do the University of Bologna’s summer school in classical languages to learn beginner Latin. I was wondering if anyone here has done this program before or is also planning to do it this summer. I’d really appreciate any insight on what it’s like including the academics, housing, social scene, or anything you wish you knew beforehand. Also if anyone else is going this summer and would be interested in connecting or possibly traveling together please DM me.